On Monday afternoon 29th April, Out To Lunch read J. H. Prynne's newly-published Of Better Scrap (Cambridge: Face Press, 2019) into a Roland digital recorder. On Tuesday 30th April, OTL combined his reading with a splash'n'klang from 23rd April. Why? After reading the volume (silently) on Monday morning, OTL took the household's washing to the launderette. While hanging up the clothes to dry, he realised that the thunderous rhythms of the poems were beating in his brain ... "The pulse is key!" he exclaimed, recalling an old manifesto by Andrew Duncan penned after a good time at Bob Cobbing's Writers' Forum. OTL freely admits that in this particular performance, the rhythm only really takes hold with "Daze Trophy Safeguard" (page 27; 30:14 here); whether this is the fault of reader or the poems listeners must decide. The photo of lightning on the cover is from Richard Scorer & Arjen Verkaik's Spacious Skies (Newton Abbot, 1989).

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